The woke revolutionaries get the headlines. A psychologist speaking at Yale fantasizes about killing “white people.” Princeton’s classics department eliminates Latin and Greek as requirements for undergraduate majors. The media bombard us with warnings about “white supremacy.” It’s easy . . . . Continue Reading »
Éric Zemmour is the most important media personality in France today. He is also the most controversial. So, in February 2021, when he hinted on television that he was considering running for president, he sent shock waves through France’s chattering classes. Despite widespread denunciation, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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Malta is one of the last countries in the world where abortion is illegal, but pro-abortion activists are trying to change that. Continue Reading »
To understand the Internet you need both: Lockwood’s diptych of cloud and clarity, and Basu’s chaos mosaic. Continue Reading »
The plight of the British Labour party—which can be found today still licking its wounds from a devastating 2019 general election defeat, presenting as a shadow of its once proud self—should be a warning to any political organization tempted to believe it can neglect its core vote and . . . . Continue Reading »
John Finnis’s “Abortion Is Unconstitutional” (April) has already sent shockwaves through the pro-life movement and the broader abortion debate. The piece sparked a vigorous debate with prominent conservative scholar Ed Whelan. In the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg denounced what she . . . . Continue Reading »
Looking back on his time as a Cuban-trained communist revolutionary, the French writer Régis Debray recalled that Chile’s Marxist president used to display on his desk a photo of guerrilla leader Che Guevara, inscribed: “To Salvador Allende, who is headed to the same place by a different . . . . Continue Reading »
The sluggish, tepid approach to a crisis of Eucharistic coherence that Cardinal Ladaria urges on the U.S. bishops is badly misconceived. Continue Reading »
“One of the gravest errors of our time is the dichotomy between the faith which many profess and the practice of their daily lives.” Continue Reading »
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